Below is the text of a letter recently sent to the
newspapers by Daltún Ó Ceallaigh.

I was amazed by the List of State Ceremonial Events for the
Easter Rising published by the Department of the Taoiseach and which has just
come to my attention.

It states, among other things, that, on 16th May 2016, in
Grangegorman Military Cemetery, there is to be an "Event to mark the
deaths of British soldiers who died during the Rising". One wonders what
the event will involve, e.g. will the Irish Army conduct it.

As a Polish friend observed to me, this is like a
commemoration of the Warsaw uprising during the Second World War including the
marking of the deaths of German soldiers who helped to suppress it.

Significantly, the public will not be allowed to attend this
event and the timing of it is yet to be announced.

It is both disgraceful and shameful that the military
representatives of imperialism and enemies of Irish freedom in 1916 should be
recognized in this way.